ABSTRACT
1. OR nurses are trained to listen, observe, and pass the necessary instrumentation. On their road to gain professional status, they must not forget the need to improve clinical and professional skills as well as why they went into nursing: patient care. 2. Many OR nurses do not try to eliminate fears, no matter what the age of their patients, and some may have even added to patient fears. Although such nurses are the exception, OR nurses should strive to keep themselves from being classified as uncaring. 3. Preoperative tours and postoperative visits should become an essential part of the surgical experience. Ideas and concerns should be addressed, and changes to enhance future surgical procedures should be discussed.
Subject(s)
Operating Room Nursing , Pediatric Nursing , Child , Family , Humans , Parents/education , Professional-Family RelationsSubject(s)
Burns/nursing , International Cooperation , Burns/surgery , Humans , USSR , United StatesABSTRACT
Following the Bashkir train-gas pipeline disaster of 4 June 1989, US surgeons and nurses had an opportunity to join their Soviet counterparts at the Burn Unit at Children's Hospital 9 in Moscow in caring for the children. As a result of the joint effort, both the Soviet and US professionals came to understand the strengths and limits of each system of burn care. Joining strengths through mutual willingness to listen and cooperate left an elevated level of burn care at Children's Hospital 9.
Subject(s)
Burn Units , Burns/therapy , Explosions , International Cooperation , Patient Care Team , Adolescent , Bashkiria , Burns/surgery , Child , Child, Preschool , Emergencies , Female , Humans , Male , Moscow , United States , Wound Infection/drug therapyABSTRACT
A group of US surgeons and nurses was invited by the Soviet surgeons and nurses of the Burn Unit of Childrens Hospital 9 to return to Moscow to participate in the evaluation and treatment of a group of 25 children burned in the Bashkir train-gas pipeline accident of 4 June 1989. The US group had participated in the acute care of the children 7 months before. Major sequelae observed were hepatitis, cardiomyopathy and severe emotional disorders. Reconstructive surgery for burn scars was jointly planned and carried out during a 2-week period of mutually instructive cooperation.
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Burn Units/organization & administration , Burns/therapy , Explosions , International Cooperation , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Adolescent , Bashkiria , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over , Humans , Male , Moscow , Plasmapheresis , United StatesABSTRACT
1. The Shriners Institute in Boston developed a day to educate children about hospitals and the OR environment. 2. OR nurses have instituted extensive procedures and policies to allow potential patients the information they need to know their rights. 3. The most important instruction was for the children to ask those questions that they thought their teddy bears might ask.
